The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Memorials: Iconography
Agosta, L. 1983
‘Speaking stones: New England grave carving and the emblematic tradition’, Markers 3, 47–70.
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Ames, K. 1981
‘Ideologies in stone: meanings in Victorian gravestones’, Journal of Popular Culture, 14, 4, 641-656.
Awberry, G. 1998
‘Of graves and epitaphs: dialect archaeology and Welsh churchyards’, Language and Development, 5, 44-50.
Baghdad Mohamed, H. 2013
‘Funerary inscriptions in Algeria: anthropo-philosophical reflections’, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, 3:2, 37-49.
Ben-Ur, A. 2003
‘Still life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi and West African art and form in Suriname’s Jewish cemeteries’, American Jewish History, 92:1, 31-79.
Bergenren, C. 1982
Folk art on gravestones: the Glorious Contrast’, Markers 2, 171–83.
Brennan, M. 2011
‘Geological survey of historical cemeteries, Jamestown, Rhode Island, 1693-1900’, Historical Archaeology, 45:4, 102-14.
Brown, H. 2008
A Scottish Graveyard Miscellany: Exploring the Folk Art of Scotland’s Gravestones, Edinburgh: Berlinn.
Clark, A., Johnson, A. & Matthews, D. 2019
‘The gendered language of gravestones: a comparative study of central and northern Appalachian cemeteries’ in S.Brunn & R. Kehrein (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map, Springer, 1839-1851.
Clegg, F. 1984
‘Problems of symbolism in cemetery monuments’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3, 307–15.
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Cooper, G. 2011
‘Stories told in stone: gravestone iconography and genealogical research’, Northwest Ohio History, 79:1, 15-21.
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Deetz, J. 1977
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life, New York: Anchor Books.
Dethlefson, E. & Deetz, J. 1966
‘Death’s heads, cherubs and willow trees: experimental archaeology in colonial cemeteries’, American Antiquities, 31: 502-10.
Drenton, J., McManus, K., and Labrecque, L. 2017
‘Graves, gifts and the bereaved consumer: a restorative perspective of gift exchange’, Consumption Markets and Culture, 20: 5, 423-455.
Elliott, B. 2016
‘Proclaiming modernity in the monument trade: Barre Granite, Vermont Marble, and national advertising’, in S. Dobscha (ed.) Death in a Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, 13-29.
Eskdaile, K. 1946
English Church Monuments 1510-1840, London: Batsford.
Fernández, E. 2011
‘Euphemistic conceptual metaphors in epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery’, Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 9:1, 198-225.
Finch, J. 1991
‘“According to the qualitie and degree of the person deceased”: funerary monuments and the construction of social identities 1400-1750′, Scottish Archaeological Review, 8, 105-14.
Gustavsson, A. 2011
Cultural Studies on Death and Dying in Scandanavia, Oslo: Novus Press.
Gustavsson, A. 2015
‘Death, dying and bereavement in Norway and Sweden in recent times’, Humanities, 4:2, 224-235.
